Health Economics Research Boot Camp
Benjamin R. Handel, Kate Ho, and Jonathan T. Kolstad, Organizers
December 3-5, 2019
Supported by the National Science Foundation
NBER, 2nd Floor Conference Room, 1050 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, MA
| Tuesday, December 3 | ||
| 1:30 pm |
Introduction to Boot Camp Benjamin R. Handel, University of California at Berkeley and NBER |
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| 2:00 pm |
Boot Camp Session # 1: Health Insurance Benjamin R. Handel, University of California at Berkeley and NBER (Slides) Jonathan Gruber, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER (Slides) |
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| 5:30 pm | Adjourn | |
| 6:30 pm |
Dinner Royal Sonesta Hotel, Parkview Room Keynote Speaker: Amitabh Chandra, Harvard University and NBER (Slides) |
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| Wednesday, December 4 | ||
| 8:30 am | Coffee and Pastries | |
| 9:00 am |
Boot Camp Session # 2: Health Economics and Industrial Organization (Slides) Leemore Dafny, Harvard University and NBER Kate Ho, Princeton University and NBER |
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| 1:30 pm |
Boot Camp Session # 3: Health Economics and Organizational Economics (Slides) David C. Chan Jr, Stanford University and NBER |
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| 3:30 pm |
Boot Camp Session # 4: Health Economics and Behavioral Economics
(Slides) Joshua Schwartzstein, Harvard University |
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| 5:00 pm | Adjourn | |
| 5:45 pm | Informal Group Dinner at NBER | |
| Thursday, December 5 | ||
| 8:30 am | Coffee and Pastries | |
| 9:00 am |
Boot Camp Session # 3: Health Economics and Organizational Economics, Part II (Slides) Jonathan T. Kolstad, University of California at Berkeley and NBER |
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| 10:30 am | Break | |
| 11:00 am |
Boot Camp Session # 5: Machine Learning and Human Decision Making Sendhil Mullainathan, University of Chicago and NBER Ziad Obermeyer, University of California at Berkeley |
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| 1:00 pm | Adjourn | |